Kinshasa-blog Chat on the terrace
Nienke van Renssen – Our first session is over, today we have introduced ourselves with the lawyers of the Bar Association here in Kinshasa. The lawyers we will be assisting are organized in the group La Defense de la Defense (DdD). This committee was established in 2014 and aims to improve the position of lawyers […]
Azza Soliman acquitted
On 23 May 2015, lawyer Azza Soliman was acquitted by the Qasr al-Nile Court. Less than three days later, the Qasr al-Nile Prosecution appealed the acquittal. The appeal will be heard on 13 June 2015. Azza Soliman voluntarily went to the Public Prosecution’s office on 24 January 2015, to give her testimony regarding the violent […]
Kinshasa-blog DRC and the policital situation at this moment
Nienke van Renssen – If you say Congo, most people think of eastern Congo, where war has raged for years and a terrible conflict is still playing on the border with Uganda and Rwanda. Congo, the former colony of Belgium. And Zaire, which symbolized darkest Africa in the seventies, led by dictators with leopard skins. I […]
Kinshasa-blog With Lawyers for Lawyers to Kinshasa
Nienke van Renssen – Soon we will leave with seven attorneys from the Netherlands to the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is an initiative of Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) and the Justice & Peace Foundation in the context of the Connect2Protect project. The goal of this project is to have local human rights defenders […]
Call to restore confidence in judiciary
The situation of Egyptian lawyers is quickly deteriorating. Lawyers are faced with arrests, prosecution and police violence that has even led to the deaths of two lawyers, while they were being held in police custody. In their efforts to address the alarming ongoing erosion of the rule of law and people’s confidence in Egypt’s justice […]
Lawyers for Lawyers monitors hearings in Istanbul
This week Lawyers for Lawyers observed two hearings in the cases in which a large number of lawyers are being prosecuted. One of the hearings was adjourned to October 2015. Lawyers for Lawyers monitored two hearings in the trials against Turkish lawyers in Istanbul on 7 and 13 May 2015. On 7 May, the trial against […]
Situation of lawyers quickly deteriorating
The situation of Egyptian lawyers is quickly deteriorating. Lawyers are faced with arrests, prosecution and police violence that has even led to the deaths of two lawyers, while they were being held in police custody. The International Commission of Jurists has been documenting the attacks against lawyers in Egypt. Mahinour el-Massry On 11 May 2015, […]
Lawyers for Lawyers Seminar
L4L invites you to the seminar: “Lawyers are not their clients” + Presentation of the L4L-Award 2015 It is the 25th anniversary of the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and L4L is organizing the seminar ‘Lawyers are not their clients’ in celebration of this. Lawyers from Cameroon, the Netherlands, Turkey and Colombia will […]
IBAHRI urgently calls on government to review sentencing of Intigam Aliyev
Lawyers for Lawyers fully supports the call of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) on the Government of Azerbaijan to review the sentencing of human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev. On April 22, 2015, the Baku Grave Crimes Court sentenced Intigam Aliyev to seven-and-a-half year imprisonment on charges of “tax evasion”, “abuse of authority”, “illegal […]
Lawyers for Lawyers Award for Jorge Molano!
Jorge Molano, a Colombian Human Rights Lawyer and member of DHColombia, is selected to receive the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2015. An expert jury selected Molano because of his “immense personal courage and stamina” and to “draw attention to the largely overlooked dire human rights situation in Colombia”. Human rights lawyers from across the world […]
Renewed call for release of ‘Duma Four’ on birthday of Razan Zaitouneh
To mark the 38th birthday of missing human rights defender and lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, 70 organizations, including Lawyers for Lawyers, today reiterate their call for her immediate release, as well as that of her missing colleagues Samira Khalil, Nazem Hamadi and Wa’el Hamada. The four were abducted on 9 December 2013 in Douma. Since then, […]
Authorities try to initiate criminal case against lawyer
Despite the call from the United Nations Human Rights Committee for Russia to comply with its human rights obligations, lawyers in the Russian Federation increasingly face improper interference. Lawyers for Lawyers was informed that the Ministry of Justice is trying to initiate a criminal case against lawyer Mark Feygin. Lawyers for Lawyers has reason to believe that […]
Intigam Aliyev sentenced to 7,5 years in jail
On April 22, 2015, the Baku Grave Crimes Court sentenced Intigam Aliyev to seven-and-a-half year imprisonment on charges of “tax evasion”, “abuse of authority”, “illegal entrepreneurship”, and “appropriation”. Aliyev denies all the charges and says they are politically motivated. Aliyev was arrested in August 2014 and sent to pre-trial detention. Under the harsh prison conditions, […]
Lawyer at risk of suspension after criticizing Supreme Court decision
Human rights lawyer Julia Cabello Alonso faces a possible one-year suspension from practicing law or disqualification from the Paraguay Bar Association for her outspoken activism in defense of indigenous communities in Paraguay. This was reported by Frontline Defenders on their website. Cabello Alonso is a human rights lawyer and Coordinator of Tierraviva, an indigenous rights […]
1 year since arrest Abu al-Khair: petition to WGAD
Today Lawyers for Lawyers, together with six other human rights organizations, issued a joint press release to mark the fact that human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair was arrested one year ago and has since been in prison. Furthermore, on 14 April 2015, a petition was filed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) […]
Ramazan Demir acquitted!
Today, a Turkish court decided to acquit lawyer Ramazan Demir. Lawyers for Lawyers was in Istanbul to observe the hearing in the trial against Demir, and welcomes the decision of the court. Demir had been charged with “insulting or (…) offending the dignity of a public authority in the performance of his duties”, pursuant to Section […]
